Classic helicopter game/sim
December 16, 2010 10:48 AM
Help me remember the name of a helicopter firefighting game/simulator.
During the early nineties one of my favorite arcade games was a sort of helicopter rescue game. In it you piloted a firefighting helicopter through a number of scenarios. The scenarios that I seem to remember are fighting a forest fire, putting out a fire in a tall office building, and putting out a fire on an aircraft carrier.
The game was a sort of constrained 3D environment where you could rotate the helicopter 360 degrees and fly up to a certain distance toward the horizon, but there was always one central "fire" that you were supposed to go back to within a time limit.
The game itself was played in a sit-down cabinet with simulated helicopter controls including a pedal, thrust, and helicopter control stick. I remember it being fiendishly difficult and I pumped many quarters into it over several weeks until I could beat it. Does anyone remember the name of the game?
During the early nineties one of my favorite arcade games was a sort of helicopter rescue game. In it you piloted a firefighting helicopter through a number of scenarios. The scenarios that I seem to remember are fighting a forest fire, putting out a fire in a tall office building, and putting out a fire on an aircraft carrier.
The game was a sort of constrained 3D environment where you could rotate the helicopter 360 degrees and fly up to a certain distance toward the horizon, but there was always one central "fire" that you were supposed to go back to within a time limit.
The game itself was played in a sit-down cabinet with simulated helicopter controls including a pedal, thrust, and helicopter control stick. I remember it being fiendishly difficult and I pumped many quarters into it over several weeks until I could beat it. Does anyone remember the name of the game?
Sim Copter may have grown out of ideas from this game, but the game I'm talking about was definitely an arcade cabinet game and I know that I played it as early as 1993.
posted by sherlockt at 10:57 AM on December 16, 2010
posted by sherlockt at 10:57 AM on December 16, 2010
I think we have a winner! It WAS Air Inferno. . .although the graphics are so much better in my memory than the screenshots I can find of it. . .I guess I was a lot more impressed by polygons in 1993.
posted by sherlockt at 11:19 AM on December 16, 2010
posted by sherlockt at 11:19 AM on December 16, 2010
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posted by samthemander at 10:54 AM on December 16, 2010